Shelly Hazard Pickel, a 55-year-old woman from Lyman, South Carolina, was found dead on October 2, 2018. Born in Wisconsin to Byron and June Hazard, she was remembered as a gentle person who played piano and treasured her family and grandchildren. Her death prompted an investigation by the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office and the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators focused on events at the family’s Lyman home. On the evening of October 4, 2018, police arrested her husband, David Stephen Pickel. Warrants alleged he shot and killed Shelly while under the influence of alcohol; he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and the criminally negligent use of a firearm because his handling of the weapon was deemed criminally negligent.

Does anyone have information about Shelly’s life in Lyman or the circumstances that led to that October 2018 night?